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Friday, October 20, 2017

The 'Dumb and the Furious' at Holyrood; SNP MSP Joan McAlpine makes a complete fool of herself claiming that the UK single market doesn't exist, insult to injury as she is corrected by two Professors, one of whom is a Law Professor, Nationalist trot out their ignorance as a matter of course, but this take stupid to a whole new level

Dear All

It appears that brains are in short supply when it comes to
SNP MPs or MSPs, where it is married MSP like Kenny Gibson diving off to Costa
Rica with a married party aide, attending illegal referendums like Joanne
Cherry or talking bollocks like Joan McAlpine, there is a nationalist for every
occasion to let Scotland down.

If there was prizes for stupidity, Joan McAlpine would have
to be included in the line up, to leave her out would be a crime, her latest
major gaffe is claiming there is no such thing as the UK single
market. You might be shocked at how someone elected to public office can stand
up and say this and think it would be allowed to pass unnoticed.

The United
Kingdom is the most impressive single market
that has ever existed, where you are Scots, English, Welsh or Northern Irish,
there is border-free movement of goods, capital, people and services. In fact
the free movement of trade has gone on for centuries which probably explain why
people like; Joan McAlpine doesn’t get it.

The revelation makes you wonder how on earth someone like Joan
McAlpine gets to be the convener of Holyrood’s European Committee
especially when she comes out with statements like this which shows stark lack of reality.

The claim made at the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics however
didn’t stand the test of time as she said:

“This talk of the UK single market, it’s a bit of a
nonsense when you think that under the devolved settlement we already have
different approaches to things. Health, for example, and lots of other areas as
well where we take a different approach. So we don’t really have a UK single
market.”

Up pops Professor Nicola McEwen, Associate Director of the
Centre for Constitutional Change at EdinburghUniversity
who told her:

“Yes, we do.”

Followed by Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at the University of Dundee who also set her staright by
saying:

“Buying and selling goods, moving job, capital - all of
these things move freely within the United Kingdom to the extent that we don’t
even think about it. We live in an economic and monetary union. We do have, no
question, a single market in which goods, people, capital move freely within
the UK.”

Short, sanppy and to the point, even an idiot could
understand this, McAlpine was born in Gourock, Renfrewshire, that
being said, education is taught in that neck of the woods, and when you throw
in her stint at Glasgow University where she did MA (Hons) in Scottish
History and Economic History, you can only come to the conclusion
that McAlpine is an ‘arse’.

Several things which Joan McAlpine seems to have no problem
are listed in her wiki page, such as employing Gail Lythgoe, was found to have
emailed a women's equality group, alleging that the Labour politician Ian
Davidson has a history of bullying women and called on them to demonstrate
against him, that ended badly for Lythgoe. Then there was failing to turn up to
Ministerial Questions to ask a question which she had tabled in the Scottish
Parliament as she was eating dinner in a restaurant. This was something I
blogged on the deer muncher story.

A touching story of McAlpine breaking up a 29 year old
marriage, at the time she said that she hadn’t had an affair but a relationship.
According to her lover at the time, he said on the circumstances:

“We were both on our own in the city (Inverness
at SNP Conference), drink was taken and we ended up in bed together. It was a
fling. To me it was never more than a fling. It was me doing that thing that
many married men do – when the opportunity is there you take it. I’m not proud
of it.”

Having done history, it seems that Joan McAlpine is unable
to learn from history, or has a short term memory problem, her committee last
year wrote the foreword to a paper which referred to the UK single
market.

It said:

"The devolution settlement, like the European Union, is
based on a ‘single market’ in goods, persons, services and capital."

If Ms McAlpine thinks she has a career as a propangandist,
in the past she worked for newspapers, perhaps she should think again, her
career is littered with gaffes where she ends up becoming the story due to ‘bad
messaging’.

A spokesman for the Scottish Tories said:

“It appears Joan McAlpine has decided to temporarily leave
the reality-based community. Of course we have a UK
market - just ask anyone who has popped across the border from Carlisle to Gretna to do some shopping.
Given Ms McAlpine is a South of Scotland MSP; you’d think she’d be the first to
understand this. It’s therefore extremely odd she doesn’t.”

If you are ignorant, daft or feebleminded, a good strategy
is to say nothing which draws attention to yourself, that way you can sup up
the taxpayer cash as an MSP and no one will know you exist. After all, there
are plenty of MSPs that no one has ever heard of at the Scottish Parliament.

Joan McAlpine is just another in the line of failed SNP
politicians which the public is seeing on a daily basis, some like Tasmina
Ahmed-Shiekh, Angus Roberston, Anne McLaughlin have been kicked out of office
but other like Joan McAlpine still remain, one day, I hope to see the end of
the Holyrood list system which allows people like Joan McAlpine into the
Scottish Parliament, that day cannot come soon enough in my opinion.

6 comments:

Anonymous
said...

There is no cure for stupidity. McAlpine is the Regional List MSP for my area and many here think of her as a fool but she then opens her mouth and proves us correct. Agree with you about the Regional list which is allowing fools, uneducated, and unprofessional people into the Scottish Parliament and dragging it down into the gutter. This disgraceful piece of humanity has the worse civil service record ever yet no-one will deal with her. She needs to be sent packing before she causes more trouble for our parliament and our country.